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C	MANAGEMENT SUMMARY

	a  Councillors have Waste Management, Climate Change and COVID-19 issues
	b  Understanding COVID-19 long-term costs
	c  Many Community organisations not just Councils have long term COVID-19 costs
	d  Utilising new technologies to monitor and record offsets

a  Councillors have Waste Management, Climate Change and as well as COVID-19 issues

Councils have a number of challenges over the next 10 years which few have appeared to 
identify properly in their published 10-year plans on their web-sites 

These Challenges include stimulating new community work initiatives for local economies.
managing waste more effectively for Climate Change Greenhouse Gases reduction policies, 
providing more effective rate-payer value and encouraging higher qualified candidates to run 
for Council positions

This submission tries to address these issues by proposing that the Role of a Councillor 
becomes a Ward Resource Co-ordinator who encourages Street Co-ordinators to Participate 
in the local democracy by managing local volunteer resources and waste far more effectively 
and creating a local economy credits system that can be spent in local shops

b	Understanding COVID-19 long-term costs

There are many aspects of long term COVID-19 costs that are difficult to quantify

Whilst the newspapers have tried to quantify costs eg Article 12 Oct 2020 "The COVID-19 
Pandemic and the US$ 16 Trillion Virus"

"The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the 
greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the US has encountered since the Great 
Depression. 

This Viewpoint aggregates mortality, morbidity, mental health conditions, and direct 
economic losses to estimate the total cost of the pandemic in the US on the optimistic 
assumption that it will be substantially contained by the fall of 2021. 

These costs far exceed those associated with conventional recessions and the Iraq War, 
and are similar to those associated with global climate change. 

However, increased investment in testing and contact tracing could have economic benefits 
that are at least 30 times greater than the estimated costs of the investment in these 
approaches.

Since the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in March, 60 million claims have 
been filed for unemployment insurance. 

Before COVID-19, the greatest number of weekly new unemployment insurance claims 
(based on data from 1967 on) was 695?000 in the week of October 2, 1982. 

For 20 weeks beginning in late March 2020, new unemployment claims exceeded 1 million 
per week; as of September 20, new claims have been just below that amount………...

The above article is about the United States of America and the same issues apply to every 
Country throughout the World

According to the Guardian Newspaper 11 May 2021 "The 2021 Federal Budget reveals huge 
cost of Au$311 Billion cost of COVID to the Australian Economy"

However the major cost was for Economic stimulus packages like "Jobkeeper" and 
"Jobseeker" and does not include the Economic costs of State Government lockdowns and 
the costs of establishing on-going testing locations

Hence Councils have to set the example for the rest of the Community to follow as to 
how to offset COVID-19 costs, manage waste more effectively and progress as 
Community networks

c	Many Community organisations not just Councils have long-term COVID-19 costs

There is a plethora of community networks which will have long-term COVID-19 cost 
including Business Associations, Chambers of Commerce, sports clubs, body corporates, 
RSLs, school meetings as well as Councils and different Council committees 

Just in the last Olympics in Tokyo 2021 there were over 339 different medal events and this 
does not include various other sports and pastimes which have regular meetings

All of these organisations could benefit if committee meetings both physical and On-line 
could be recorded as that Community Asset

d	Utilising new technologies to monitor and record offsets

Most Communities that have meeting record the Minutes these days produce them on PCs 
or terminals 

It is now a simple process to put those minutes On-line so that the members can review the 
minutes 

All Sports Communities, Council Communities and Councils in Australia also have extensive 
Volunteering at regular Committee meetings whereby the minutes record the attendees, 
preparation of reports and actual time spent by Volunteers at these committee meetings

These Committee activities should be included as an Asset in the Economic Value of that 
Community

Indeed with repeated COVID-19 outbreaks, many of these meetings could be performed On-
line or by Zoom meetings hence should be included as Economic Contributions 

This issue of the Economic Value of participation in On-line Committees was recognised by 
the foundation members of the Open Interchange Consortium [OIC] at the inaugural AGM 
minutes and members' mandates in 1996

Following that AGM OIC members developed a number of On-line services including 
Electronic Committee Information Management [ECIM]

ECIM was based on research carried out with Hampton School Rugby Old Boys, South 
Sydney Council, South Sydney Chamber of Commerce and a joint-venture with the British 
Standards Institute [BSI] which printed and posted out over 1,000,000 pieces of paper 
annually to members of over 350 national and international committees

The research by OIC members into ECIM included hourly Accreditation credits for Electronic 
Committee Participation as used by Electronic Business [eBXML] Australia 2000-2002 for 
telephone conference meetings around Australia and Hong Kong

NZ COUNCILS HAVE ELECTED COUNCILLORS & COMMUNITY BOARDS

	A	NZ Councils elected Community Boards
	B	North Sydney Council 26 Precinct system espoused by Mayor Ted MACK
	C	Volunteer Participation as Community Assets

A	NZ COUNCILS ELECTED COMMUNITY BOARDS

Further to our emails about the Australian research on the Economic Value of 
Volunteers for each state on 15 Jun 2021 and valued in 2013 at $ 25 Billion per 
annum in email 14 July 2021 you may be interested in reviewing how New Zealand 
Councils have elected Community Boards many chaired by elected Councillors

NZ Example 1: Whakatane Council 

1 elected Mayor,10 elected Councillors with 20 elected members for 6 Community
Boards providing multiple committee meetings each month

And these are the On-line committee meeting dates 

July 2021 - 7 committee meetings

Jun 2021 - 8 Committee Meetings

May 2021 - 9 Committee Meetings

Unfortunately all the agendas and minutes of meeting are On-line PDF files that 
have to be downloaded to be read. - none of the minutes are documents that can be 
read On-line by other interested members of those Communities

Compare those On-line PDF minutes with the On-line minutes of an Electronic 
Business [ebXML] Australia meeting nearly 20 years ago on 05 Feb 2002 of the 
Marketing Strategy Work Group chaired by Mark BEZZINA Director of 
Communications, IT and eCommerce at Standards Australia - his changes to the 
draft minutes are included in blue ink !

This is a link to the members and their attendance records of Electronic Business 
[ebXML] Australia which could be used by every Council/Sports Club/Body 
Corporate Committee to show On-line attendance with COVID-19 travel restrictions

For some reason Standards Aus cancelled all other scheduled 2002 ebXML 
Meetings after that 05 Feb 2002 meeting !

NZ Example 2: Selwyn District Council

Another example is Selwyn District Council which has 1 mayor and 12 Councillors 
and over 70 listed Committees with regular meetings and PDF minutes

NZ Example 3: Christchurch City Council

Christchurch City Council has 15 councillors with 7 Community Boards comprising 
52 elected Volunteer members

B	North Sydney Council 26 Precinct system espoused by Mayor Ted MACK

In 1974 Ted MACK was elected as initially as an Alderman and then as Mayor from 
1980-1988 on North Sydney Council and espoused the principles of "Participatory 
Democracy" whereby "Citizens have a right to participate in local precinct issues"

Ted established 26 Precincts in the North Sydney Local Government Area and now 
this Precinct system is under review possibly because North Sydney Volunteers are 
no longer fulfilling all the roles necessary to maintain the value of the Precincts.

As the reports on the "Economic Value of Volunteering" to the 5 State Governments
by Dr Duncan IRONMONGER indicate that a Volunteer hour is now valued at over 
$ 35.00/hr, recent COVID-19 large-scale community shutdowns dictate we must use 
technology to record Volunteer participation as a Community Asset rather than leave 
Communities in perpetual debt under current accounting processes

C	VOLUNTEER PARTICIPATION AS COMMUNITY ASSETS

All Sports Communities, Council Communities and Councils in Australia also have 
extensive Volunteering at regular Committee meetings whereby the minutes record 
the attendees, preparation of reports and actual time spent by Volunteers at these 
committee meetings

These Committee activities should be included as an Asset in the Economic Value of 
that Community

Indeed with repeated COVID-19 outbreaks, many of these meetings may be 
performed On-line or by Zoom meetings hence should be included as Economic 
Contributions 

This issue of the Economic Value of participation in On-line Committees was 
recognised by the foundation members of the Open Interchange Consortium [OIC] at 
the inaugural AGM minutes and members' mandates in 1996

Following that AGM OIC members developed a number of On-line services 
including Electronic Committee Information Management [ECIM]

ECIM was based on research carried out with Hampton School Rugby Old Boys, 
South Sydney Council, South Sydney Chamber of Commerce and a joint-venture 
with the British Standards Institute [BSI] which printed and posted out over 1,000,000
pieces of paper annually to members of over 350 national and international 
committees

The research by OIC members into ECIM included hourly Accreditation credits for 
Electronic Committee Participation which was used by Electronic Business [eBXML]
Australia 2000-2002 for telephone conference meetings around Australia and Hong Kong


			Submission Content Index

	A	Reviewing the Submission Brief

	B	Organisation making this Submission

	C	Management Summary

		a  Councillors have Waste Management, Climate Change as well as COVID-19 cost issues

		b  Understanding COVID-19 long-term costs

		c  Many organisations not just Councils have long-term COVID-19 costs

		d  Utilising new technologies to monitor and record the offsets to COVID-19 costs

	D	Response to Brief Consultation Questions

 



LEGEND

EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
SME	Small and Medium size Enterprises
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]
XML	Extensible Mark-up Language



I	Other Inner West Council Documents that are part of the CSP2036

	a	Strategies
	b	Plans
	c	Statements
	r	Research References

a	Strategies

Is1 Resourcing Strategy [ReS] 2018-2028 Adopted Jun 2018- PDF File		
Is2 Climate + Renewables Strategy [CRS] - draft On-line		
Is3 Employment and Retail Lands Strategy [EaRLS] - PDF File		
Is4 Housing Strategy [HS] - PDF File
Is5 Integrated Transport Strategy [ITS] Adopted 03 Mar 2020 - PDF File
Is6 Asset Management Strategy [AMS]2018-28 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is7 Workforce Management Strategy [WMS] 2018-22 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is8 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Strategy 2018-2022 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File

b	Plans

Ip1 Community Strategic Plan [CSP] 2036 Endorsed Jun 2019 - On-line
Ip2 Economic Strategic Development Plan [EDSP] draft - On-line
Ip3 Long Term Financial Plan 2019-2029 Adopted Jun 2019 - PDF File

c	Statements

It1 Local Planning Statement [LPS]		

r	References

R6 2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

R5 2003-2014 Value of Volunteers to Australian State Economies

R4 2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

R3 1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

R2 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

R1 1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video


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